Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-17
State News.
ANDROsCOGcIN.

| Maxwell 4 Munroe, of Lewiston, have
shipped between 5000 and 1000 barrels OF
| apples, this seasou--three times as many a.
ever before, up to thi, time 10 the season
| Lewiston fur dealer, Mr.. j. P. Longley,
has at his place the pelt of white otter,
trapped in this county. and near the town OF
Lincoln. Mr.. Longley says it is the FIRST tina,
he ever heard of in Maine, though he saw a
man once who knew of the trapping of awhile
otter in Pennsylvania.
Mr.. William Aiken, of Lewiston, was
nearly suhacated with gas from newly made
coal FIRE, Thursday night. He was so badly
| affected that he could not leave the house
till late in the afternoon.
ARoosrooK.
Il is now hoped that the new church at
Blaine may be ready for dedication the last
Sabbath in this m onth. The building is fin-
ished, but waiting for pews, which are con-
tracted for, and are being built at factory in
Michigan.
CUMBERLAND.
The employees of the Dennison Manufac-
turing Company in Brunswick are contribut-
ing toward the fund for the erection of some
suitable testimonial to the memory of the
late Mr.. f. B Dennison, and it is understood
that the operatives in other places are con-
tributIng to the same object.
Capt. J. L Greene, OF Harpswell. his wife,
two children. and two of his crew, while
sleeping in the forecastle of the schooner w.
ing at Portland, Wednesday morning, were
ali very much overcome by gas from the
coal stove. 1t cold night and only a
very small opening had been left at the hatch
way. Had they not been aroused by one of
the children they would probably have died
FRANKLIN
From the other side of the earth has come
subscription toward rebuilding the Farm
ington Baptist church. Rev. w. H. S. Has
call. formerly pastor Of the church, is now
missionary stationed at Henthada, Burmah.
and he has sent a generous contribution for
the relief of his old charge.
Mrs. David French of Mt. Vernon, but
boarding with her brother in Chesterville, met
with fatal accident, few days ago. by her
dress taking fire and burning her face and
hands severely that she lived only few
days after.
LINCOLN.
On Friday January 7th, Mr.. Herman Thayer,
while at work at the Cedar Grove building,
Dresden, received a severe wound in the
foot from an ice pick in the hands Of
fellow workman. DR.. Simpson, who at
tenued Mr.. lnaver, was Obliged TO take
several stitches in the wound.
g. E.Peaslee of Alma, almost lost one of his
valuable draft oxen short time since. The
animal walked off the ice into the river,
when he was discovered by Mr.. p, who held
the creature by the horns until help arrived
from the village.
PENoBSCOT.
The Bangor Historical Society has received
from Hon. Hannibal Hamlin the History of
Paris, Oxford county, Maine, from its settle
ment to 1880. The book comprises SIG
pages, with twenty. one portraits, ten village
and town views and twenty-one public and
private edifices.
The annual meeting of the corporation of
the Home for aged women was held in CITY
Hall Thursday afternoon. The report of the
Treasurer, Hon. F. M. Sabine. gave the to-
tai receipts as 81 ,S767 II.
For the first time in five years the grand
jury of Waldo county at the present term
found no liquor indictment.
WASHINGTON.
Schooner Mary F. Pike, Mitchell, of
Lubec, from New York, with coal, fell off
from Ryerson's wharf, PASSPORT, Tuesday
morning, breaking in her side and knocking
part of keel off. The schoons- bilged and
filled.
Mr. ]. C. Adams who retired from the
duties of Register of Deeds for the county,
January LIST, has filled the office for the past
twenty nine years.
The Laconia Car Company has received an
order to build 100 more freight cars for the
Boston & Maine road